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Morgan O'Brien - Chairman
Keith Kaczmarek - President
Tom Sidman - Executive Vice President
John Melcher - Executive Vice President
David Knutson - Executive Vice President
Brian McAuley - Principal
John Lane - Sr. Policy Advisor to the Chairman.
Bruce Cox - Senior Vice President-External Affairs
Thomas D. Hickey - Vice President & General Counsel
Greg Meacham - Vice President
Tim O'Regan - Vice President of Communications
James Paull IV - Vice President and Managing Director - Strategic Initiatives
Morgan O’Brien
Chairman
Morgan O’Brien is a co-founder and Chairman of Cyren Call Communications.
Mr. O’Brien co-founded Nextel Communications, Inc., in 1987 and served as its Chairman from 1987 to 1995 and Vice-Chairman until its merger with Sprint Corporation in 2005. A pioneer who helped transform the specialized mobile radio (SMR) industry into a major wireless player, Mr. O’Brien was honored by RCR Wireless News and inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame.
Mr. O’Brien began his career as a lawyer with the Mobile Services Division of the FCC in 1970 where he assisted in establishing the rules and procedures for all land mobile services. Later, Mr. O’Brien practiced communications law and from 1986 to 1990 was the Partner-in-Charge of the telecommunications practice at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.
Known for his innovation and willingness to take risks, Mr. O’Brien was recognized in 1987 as New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year and he was voted the RCR Person of the Year in 1993 and again in 2006. In 2005 he was inducted into the Washington, DC Business Hall of Fame and in 2007 he was named a Fellow of the Radio Club of America. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The Field School in Washington, DC, the Board of Trustees of St. Anselm's Abbey School of Washington, DC and as a member of the Law Board of Northwestern University School of Law. He holds an AB in Classical Studies from Georgetown University and a juris doctorate from Northwestern University.
Keith Kaczmarek
President
Keith Kaczmarek is a co-founder and President of Cyren Call Communications. With more than 20 years of wireless telecommunications experience, Mr. Kaczmarek has played prominent technology and operations leadership roles at FiberTower, Teligent, Nextel, AirTouch, PrimeCo and GTE.
As an early investor in FiberTower, Mr. Kaczmarek also held a number of roles including CTO and COO. Mr. Kaczmarek led the development, deployment and operations of Teligent's fixed wireless network. Prior to Teligent, Mr. Kaczmarek served as CTO for PrimeCo (later acquired by Verizon) where he launched the first CDMA network in the PCS band. Continuing to serve as a technology pioneer, Mr. Kaczmarek developed and deployed first and second-generation iDEN specialized mobile radio networks at Nextel. He also was instrumental in the early development of CDMA and the evaluation and selection of several leading edge technologies while at AirTouch (later acquired by Verizon).
Mr. Kaczmarek holds a MBA degree, a MS degree in Electrical Engineering and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.
Tom Sidman
Executive Vice President - Business Processes
Tom Sidman is a co-founder and Executive Vice President, Business Processes of Cyren Call Communications. A wireless industry veteran, Mr. Sidman was the General Counsel of Nextel Communications, from October 1994 until early 2001, and thereafter served as Senior Legal Advisor to Nextel until April 2003. From the time of Nextel’s initial public offering in January 1992, with Mr. Sidman acting as principal outside counsel or serving as General Counsel, Nextel concluded numerous significant acquisition transactions in which an aggregate of in excess of 350 million shares (split adjusted) of Nextel common stock were issued; raised gross cash proceeds of more than $4.5 billion in major issuances of its common and preferred equity to the public, significant shareholders and strategic investors; and issued over $12.5 billion in stated value of various high yield, redeemable or convertible debt or hybrid securities.
Mr. Sidman also represented Nextel in structuring and negotiating various major strategic transactions, including equipment purchase and related financing arrangements involving Motorola and Nortel; the formation, financing and establishment of relationships with each of Nextel Partners and NII Holdings; the sale to, and leaseback from, Spectrasite Holdings of certain tower assets of Nextel; and the establishment of outsourcing arrangements relating to billing services with Amdocs and to customer care services with IBM and Teletech. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and graduated from The University of Virginia School of Law. Subsequently, he obtained an MBA degree from The George Washington University.
John Melcher
Executive Vice President - External Affairs
John Melcher is Executive Vice President, External Affairs of Cyren Call Communications. He is also President and CEO of The Melcher Group, a public safety oriented consulting firm based in the Houston, Texas area, and specializes in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions for companies working in the public safety arena. Mr. Melcher retired in August of 2005 as the Executive Director for the Greater Harris County 9-1-1 Emergency Network in Houston, Texas, and had been with the Network since 1990. The GHC Network is the nation’s largest regional 9-1-1 program serving more than twelve hundred 9-1-1 call-takers that dispatch for some 160 responding agencies. He led the first implementation of wireless location technology allowing call centers to pinpoint the location of 9-1-1 callers from cellular devices. Mr. Melcher’s responsibilities included the design and management of integrated voice and data networks providing emergency number service for over four million citizens in the Houston metropolitan area.
Mr. Melcher is Past President of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA). He works with various national task groups, the Federal Communications Commission and members of Congress on issues related to public safety technology, wireless telecommunications issues, legislation and policy.
Mr. Melcher has developed and patented emergency communications system solutions and has been recognized by Computerworld Magazine and the Smithsonian Institute as an Innovator of Information Technology. In 1998 and 1999, he was recognized as one of the Most Influential People in Public Safety by Radio Resource magazine. His career in public safety began in the late 1970’s working in law enforcement and emergency medical services.
David Knutson
Vice President - Development
David Knutson is the Vice President of Development for Cyren Call Communications. In this role he is responsible for the development of Cyren’s business and technical direction. Most recently, Mr. Knutson was the Executive Vice President for the Wireless Network Services division of Wireless Facilities, Inc., overseeing a $200 million per year business unit responsible for providing outsourced engineering, design and implementation services to commercial wireless carriers as well as the public safety community. He also held roles as Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Outsourcing.
Previously, Mr. Knutson was Vice President of Engineering and Operations for TeleCorp PCS, AT&T Wireless’ largest affiliate until its acquisition in 2002 for $5.7 billion. Mr. Knutson was an original member of the management team and supported the business planning, capital raise, strategic development and public offering of TeleCorp. He helped build TeleCorp to a 3,500 person organization generating revenues in excess of $1 billion annually.
Prior to that, Mr. Knutson was Director of Engineering for American Personal Communications/Sprint Spectrum. American Personal Communications received a Pioneers Preference license for its work in developing the PCS industry and was the first PCS company to launch commercial service in the United States in November of 1995. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Brian McAuley
Board Member and Chair, Finance Committee
Brian McAuley serves on Cyren Call’s Board of Directors and chairs its Finance Committee. Mr. McAuley is currently Chairman of both Pacific DataVision, Inc., and Imagine Tile, Inc. He has been a founder of several companies, including Nextel Communications, and NeoWorld Communications where he was also President and CEO.
Mr. McAuley’s prior business experience includes being a financial and operations executive at several public companies and a Manager at the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche. Mr. McAuley is a member of the Board of Directors of United Rentals, Inc., where he is Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. McAuley has a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Adelphi University and is a recurring guest lecturer of the Executive MBA program of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania . He also is a Certified Public Accountant, Chairman or member of various Boards and Audit committees, and a member of various finance and telecommunications industry organizations. Brian and his wife Jane reside in Franklin Lakes , NJ.
John Lane
Senior Policy Advisor to the Chairman
John Lane is the Senior Policy Advisor to the Chairman of Cyren Call Communications. In this capacity, Mr. Lane draws on his extensive prior experience with the domestic wireless industry especially as it relates to public safety wireless communications. Mr. Lane is a Life Member of Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials -
International (APCO), the highest honor that the association can bestow and reserved only for those members who have made a significant contribution towards the objectives of APCO. Mr. Lane served as APCO’s senior counsel for more than 20 years and represented APCO in the highest traditions of honesty and integrity before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He was instrumental in convincing key congressmen they needed to insist the FCC give public safety priority in spectrum allocations and proposals. This resulted in additional spectrum being awarded to public safety in the Communications Amendments Act of 1982, (Senate Report) and in the 1983 Appropriations Act for the FCC. Mr. Lane also assisted some individual public safety communications agencies in obtaining unused broadcast spectrum for public safety use. Mr. Lane assisted the association leadership in strengthening its financial stability, investments and accountability. He helped create APCO’s original tax-exempt institutes and subsidiaries. He served as a key business and legal advisor for each board with which he worked and, in times of financial hardship, continued to serve APCO on a pro-bono basis.
Mr. Lane is a former partner in Wilkes, Artis, Hedrick & Lane, a Washington law firm; a member of the ABA, where he was the chairman of the standing committee unauthorized practice of law as well as the chairman of the standing committee national conference groups; a former member of Federal Commission Bar Association; and held a position on the Board of Regents at Georgetown University.
Mr. Lane received his undergraduate degree and Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University .
Bruce Cox
Senior Vice President – External Affairs
Bruce Cox is Senior Vice President, External Affairs for Cyren Call Communications Corporation, overseeing the company’s relationship with legislative and regulatory institutions of the government and managing outreach activities to the public safety community.
Mr. Cox is a 29-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, with background in the wireline, long distance and wireless industries and a proven track record of achieving federal legislative and regulatory corporate policy goals, including the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Interconnection and Unbundling Orders and the FCC’s 800 Megahertz Order.
Prior to Cyren Call, Mr. Cox served as Sprint Nextel Corporation’s Senior Director, Government Affairs from August 2005 until June 2006. Prior to the merger between Sprint and Nextel, Mr. Cox held a similar position with Nextel Communications, where he was deeply involved with public safety communications and spectrum reconfiguration projects.
Before joining Nextel in 2003, Mr. Cox held various positions with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) including Vice President of Regulatory Policy and Vice President of Industry Affairs. Prior to joining CTIA, Mr. Cox served as AT&T Corporation's Vice President of Government Affairs, directing AT&T's federal congressional and regulatory public policy groups, including participation in the FCC's interconnection and unbundling, universal service fund, and access charge proceedings.
Mr. Cox holds a BS in Business Administration from West Virginia University and currently chairs the University’s Visiting Committee on Student Affairs.
Thomas D. Hickey
Vice President & General Counsel
Thomas D. Hickey is Vice President and General Counsel for Cyren Call Communications Corporation. Mr. Hickey has more than 20 years of diverse legal experience in the telecommunications industry.
Prior to Cyren Call, Mr. Hickey was Vice President & Deputy General Counsel of Sprint Nextel Corporation, where he managed the team chosen as “Best Law Department” in the Washington area in November 2005 by the regional in-house bar association. Prior to the Nextel merger with Sprint, Mr. Hickey founded the Nextel Communications’ legal department and managed its growth from 1 to 150 employees.
At Nextel, Mr. Hickey successfully managed all aspects of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensing and compliance matters. He created and managed the intellectual property program and provided extensive corporate governance counseling, corporate secretary support and compliance work for the Board of Directors. He supervised compliance investigations, helped create new or updated corporate codes of conduct and successfully led legal support for all procurement efforts, real estate leases and sales agreements at Nextel for 14 years.
Before joining Nextel, Mr. Hickey was an attorney in the telecommunications section of Jones Day. Mr. Hickey’s prior experience also included work at The White House, the FCC Chairman’s Office and Congressman Michael Oxley’s office.
Mr. Hickey holds a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Washington University. A member of the Virginia, District of Columbia and Wisconsin bars, Mr. Hickey is also admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Hickey has served on the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association since 2003.
Greg Meacham
Vice President Industry Relations
Greg Meacham is Vice President Industry Relations for Cyren Call Communications. His responsibilities include liaison with the public safety/first responder community. Most recently Mr. Meacham served as Vice President of Business Development, Public Safety, for Wireless Facilities, Inc. where he worked to refine a wide range of wireless service and solution offerings to ensure that the public safety community has access to cutting edge technology.
Previously, Mr Meacham was Vice President of Federal Programs and Homeland Security at Nextel Communications, Inc., where his primary responsibility was to enhance the delivery of services and products that meet the needs of the federal market and the public safety community. He created the Nextel Emergency Response Team, which provides rapid deployment capability to support public safety in times of crisis, and championed the use of satellite linking and the development and deployment of Satellite Cell Sites on Light Trucks (SatCOLTs).
Mr. Meacham is a 30 year law enforcement veteran, first with the Baltimore Police Department in 1974 and later as a Special Agent of the FBI for 25 years. In 1999, Mr. Meacham was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and named the FBI’s Chief of Technical Programs. In this capacity, he had responsibility for the existing FBI Land Mobile Radio system and the implementation the FBI’s Integrated Digital Wireless Communication Strategy.
Mr. Meacham earned an undergraduate degree in Accounting from the University of Maryland , a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a member of the both the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Tim O’Regan
Vice President of Communications
Tim O’Regan is Vice President of Communications for Cyren Call, overseeing all matters pertaining to the company’s external communications. Mr. O’Regan has more than twelve years of experience in government and public relations, including four years in wireless telecommunications.
Prior to Cyren Call, Mr. O’Regan was part of the Public Affairs team at Nextel and Sprint Nextel Communications. At Sprint Nextel, Mr. O’Regan specialized in discussing matters pertaining to the company’s holdings of the radio spectrum with members of the press and in developing key company messaging regarding numerous matters of public policy.
Prior to Nextel, Mr. O’Regan was a volunteer and staff member of the U.S. Peace Corps and an aide to Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts.
Mr. O’Regan holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a BA in History from Boston College.
James Paull IV
Vice President and Managing Director - Strategic Initiatives
Jay Paull is Vice President and Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives, for Cyren Call Communications Corporation.
Prior to joining Cyren Call, Mr. Paull was Senior Manager in the Global Initiatives & Spectrum group at Nextel and Sprint Nextel Communications. From 2000 to 2006 he held management positions in Nextel’s public safety, corporate strategy, and government affairs groups and served on several of the company’s key public safety and spectrum projects. Before working at Nextel, he was an associate attorney at a Tallahassee, Florida, law firm. Mr. Paull also serves as Corporate Secretary for Cyren Call.
Mr. Paull received his undergraduate degree in economics from Bucknell University and a Juris Doctorate from Florida State University’s College of Law. He also received a Master of Business Administration from The University of Florida. Mr. Paull is a member of the Florida Bar.
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